Quotes About Reluctance

It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

already started to get used to the sick sweet smell. If she didn't get Summer to leave soon, she wouldn't get her to

Here at the age of thirty-nine I began to be old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out of camp; I developed proprietary claims to certain chairs and newspapers; I regularly drank three glasses of gin before dinner, never more or less, and went to bed immediately after the nine o'clock news. I was always awake and fretful an hour before reveille. Here my last love died.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.

Everybody who cares about me wants me to do therapy, but I just can't do therapy.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

Hold the cat. You'll feel better. I don't think so. He rubbed against my leg insistently. Hold the cat. I don't want to hold the cat. He reared up suddenly on his hind legs, and hooked his vicious little front claws into both flesh and leggings. Don't talk back! Pick up the cat.

I don't know,' I said grimly. 'Oh,' she said. Then after a time, she added, 'When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't, but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend I eventually intend to do it.

We Americans are reluctant to learn a foreign language of our own species, let alone another species.

The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.

He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honour, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain.

Des said reluctantly at last, Pray to your god. He's the only other one in here besides us. Pen

I guessed that only at the last possible minute did the soul in a determined fashion flee the dying flesh. Who could blame it for its reluctance? We loved our lives more than we ever knew, and at the end felt the bounty of them, as one would say in church, felt even the richness of their missed opportunities, or just understood that they were more than we had realized during the living of them and a lot to give up.

The piece was like an elegant interrogation made of tangled yarn, a query from a well-dressed man in a casket, not yet dead. It proceeded slowly, like a careful equation, and then not: if x = y, if major = minor, if death equals part of life and life part of death, then what is the sum of the infinite notes of this one phrase? It asked, answered, reasked, its moody asking a refinement of reluctance or dislike.

Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call the police.

foolish,' even though I didn't want to touch

Perhaps never in financial history has anybody else amassed so much power so reluctantly.

Was Lamont's reluctance simple candor—or splendid calculation?

As he wrote of Rockefeller, "His deliberation was sometimes extreme; his reluctance to argue and speak out his thoughts fully, his skill in not exposing the slightest surface for attack, his long silences

I don't feel like doing anything. I don't feel like riding the motion is too powerful; I don't feel like walking-it is too tiring; I don't feel like lying down, for either I would have to stay down, and I don't feel like doing that, or I would have to get up again, and I don't feel like doing that, either. Summa Summarum: I don't feel like doing anything.